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 “The question is not, do you have conflicts? The real question is, are you aware of your conflicts?”  Our mind plays all kind of tricks with us. If you are lucky, most of the time you feel confident and like you know what's going on. But that confidence is swiftly extended over different fields and most of time we are unaware of it. These are called Mind Traps or also known as "thinking errors". They consume your thinking, and impact: what you pay attention to, how you feel, your decision making Some of the common Mind Traps around us are: Fortune Telling Mostly affects people who feel "I feel too confused about the future", "I don't know whether I should do it", "I can't progress". But at the root the core issue lies in the "lack of self confidence" or "fear of failure". Gita tells us that "no one can do anything alone."  If I say that I am capable enough to go out and go for a run alone on my own, I wo...

“If You Can Think and Speak and Write, You Are Absolutely Deadly.”   I shared my book-list last time showing 158 books which I read in 2020 and 2021. Click here to see that update: https://www.readindialeadindia.com/2021/01/books-i-have-read-so-far-finished.html Growth What to do in order to grow? Wait! Do I have to do something about it? Won't I grow automatically? We all live with an assumption that everyone automatically grows. I don't decide if I want to grow from a boy to a man. Our bodies grow automatically. We grow taller and stronger as years pass by.  This false belief is deep rooted in our mind that our mental and emotional growth follows the same pattern. Time goes by and we simply get better. FALSE ❌ Personal growth doesn't happen on it's own. It only happens if you make it a conscious goal. So, I decided that. And after I was done with 158 books, I kept going. I read and read. And read a little more. I re-read old books. I read new ones. I read 3-4 books at...

Week 1

“ Few minds wear out; more rust out.” We used to joke about it when we were kids. If we were to go to the market to sell our brains, I would get a very good price because my brain is completely new & unused. I never thought that childish joke would serve as a utilitarian perspective for me one day. It was almost 20 years since that joke, when I got caught in the Covid wave and spent over 1 month in hospital (most of it unconscious) fighting for my life. I was fortunate enough to have received love, care and some luck during that time. I got past that and recovered. But it was then when I started to see evidence of incipient concentration issues. I would forget some stuff. Found it difficult to concentrate. This got me frightened more than anything in my life. Even more frightened than when I was at the hospital. I knew this would stymie me from taking more challenging roads in life. I remembered that joke. And I knew I had to take the matters in my hands. "Most men would rath...